Edited by Andrew Feenberg & Norm Friesen. With chapters by CMNS PhD alumni:  Sara Grimes, Kate Milberry, Ted Hamilton & Maria Bakardjieva. Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and rote in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. [...]

By Andrew Feenberg & William Leiss The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse’s political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse’s writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism [...]

By Andrew Feenberg Herbert Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s most famous student. He claimed to have left existentialism behind in 1933 when Heidegger was declared first Nazi rector of Freiburg University and Marcuse fled into exile. The contentious relations between these two thinkers reflected the split in twentieth-century continental philosophy between existentialism and Marxism. But Andrew [...]